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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV.
HISTORY WILL CAPER
IN MAY FETE PAGEANT
Robin Hood, Hamlet and Crusoe Will Frolic With Gold Dust Twins
NO. 111.
WILL CHOOSE MAY QUEEN
Fourteen College Departments Will Prepare Features for May Day Festival
You and the rest of the students of the University will have a chance to go back to the land of Once-upon-a-time and Make-believe and see the characters you knew in earlier days in real flesh and beauty. May 1, when the May Day festival will be given on Orread golf links.
Kings, Robin Hood, Little Red Riding Hood, Hamlet, Macebeth, Romeo and Juliet, Robinson Crusade and Huck Finn will all pass before the Queen. There will be personifications of the Sun, the Moon and the Stars. Chromosomes from the department of Biology will dance before the Queen showing cell division and the evolution of the plant. Indians will be followed by a real-life Khayyam and Archimedes, Euclid and Descartes from the mystic land of Mathematics.
In a series of pageants, historical and symbolical, the work of the various departments of the College will be shown. Fourteen departments already have entered into plans for the pageants. A May Queen, chosen from the Senior class, will review the pageant as it parades around the field. This then will attendants chosen from the Junior or Women. FAMILIES OF ROMANCE LADY
AND THE GOLD DUST TWINS
From the Chemistry department will come the elements from which the earth and everything is made. The events will dance for the Queen showcased at which existed before classification was devised and then demonstrating how easily the elements assumed perfect order at the hand of Mendel-foel.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, MONDAY, AFTERNOON, MARCH 12, 1917.
AND THE GOLD DUST TWINS
The Gold Dust Twins in personification from the Home Economics department will bring the historical part of the pageant to modern ideas. Gwen Cervera, co-founder of Kansas City is chairman of all arrangements for the fete and pageants. Miss Anne Gittens, secretary of the Y. M. C. A. has outlined the plans for the pageant.
BITTER TEARS AT PARTING
Patriotic Outburst Marks Closing Minutes of Session in Lower House
The 1917 session of the Kansas legislature, with all of its successes, and all of its failures, is over. The Uni-
tion will hold a meeting to discuss the fight until the adoption of the last conference committee report in the house at 2:20 o'clock Friday afternoon. With the exception of a formal meeting on Wednesday,
March 14, the session is closed.
The last fight in the legislature was over the passage of the claims and accounts bill which had caused a deadlock. One of the items in the bill was the appropriation of $486 for the University alumni dinner 1915, for its purpose to provide tuition fused to approve vouchers, on the ground that the state should not pay for alumni dinners. The Douglas country representatives raised a vigorous fight against striking out this item from the bill, but it was reheated by the senate and finally thrown out by the conference committee.
Another important addition was made to the miscellaneous appropriations measure which came up as one of the last measures. In the senate, the department also been allowed $1000 a year for the next two years but the senate added a proviso that the Academy must be moved to the University of Kansas. Headquartered in St. Louis, most of the officers are faculty men, the change will be convenient.
Governor Capper praised the resting legislature as the best Kansas has had for many years. An experience meeting was held by the members of the Cappers after they were made by the speaker and several leaders. The whole audience was in tears when the meeting was closed by singing "America."
Workmen were treating the trees around Spooner Library to a fresh coat of tanglefoot yesterday. By the use of such precautions it is hoped to save the trees on the campus from the spring "drive" of the bugs.
SENATOR CURTIS WRITES
CLOTURE RULE IS ENACTED
Chancellor Frank Strong received a letter this morning, from Charles Curtis, Republican senator from Kansas in response to a message sent to the Kansas senators in Congress, saying that 165 members of K. U. faculty favored the cloture rule. Senators have said that they agreed upon in Congress March 7 to enable two-thirds of the senators to close debate.
Ione Vigel, c'20, and Frances Kohlman, c'20, spent Friday in Kansas City, Mo.
The letter was sent to the members from Kansas, and was signed by 168 of them.
UNIVERSITY HELPS IN BELGIAN RELIEF FUND
Joint Concert at Bowersock Sunday Raises $500 for Starving Children
The University was well represented at the benefit concert for the relief of the Belgian children given by Mrs. Ina Few longfellow and Joe T. Marshall at the Bowersock theater Sunday afternoon. The concert netted $500 but the committee hopes to raise the amount to $1,000.
Every cent contributed from any source will go to the support of the hungry Belgian children. The expenses of the campaign are being borne by George Marshall, of Concordia, Kansas.
At the concert Joe Marshall told of the suffering of the children of Belgium. He was in Belgium for many years and died after suffering modified by 800 days of war.
"The little children for whom we are making this appeal," said Mr Marshall, "have been living on a bowl of rice and a hunk of bread. Time has now come when the growing children must have more food in order to fight off disease. In the streets of Brussels the children march singing the national anthem of America, but they don't seem blue confident that they will be cared for out of the bountiful plenty of a generous country. America responded well at first but she fails to realize that the war continues and that constraints continue to give to these children. It isn't charity, it is just plain humanity."
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
TO ISSUE MAGAZINE APRIL 1
The Kansan Chemallurgist, an annual magazine devoted to the interests of chemistry and metallurgy, will appear April 10, during the spring convention of the American Chemical Society, at Kansas City.
The Chemallurgist will be an alumni issue, modeled on last year's magazine, containing leading articles by Kansas graduates. Among these are Edward R. Weidelin, assistant director of Milan Institute, Dr. D. F. McFarland, professor of applied chemistry at Illinois University, Dr. Roy Cross of the Kansas City testing laboratories, Dr. H. P. Coyle of the University of Kansas, and others. The board of editors includes students in the department of chemistry, with Prof. W. A. Whitaker as advisory editor.
D. R. Logan, of Pawnee Rock, visited with his daughter Helen Logan, fa 20, Sunday. Miss Logan is in the Hospital, because of a case of measles.
HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS MEET AT END OF WEEK
Experts In Different Fields Will Talk In Special Phases of Work
EXPECT 600 ATTENDANCE
Mathematical Ass'n, Chemistry Society and Debating Council Also Meet
COUNT TOLSTOY TELLS OF HIS FATHER'S LIFE
"High school teachers should be experts in their subjects," F. J. Kelly, dean of the School of Education, said this morning. "They should meet at a university where they will learn different aspects of their subjects. The fourteenth annual conference of Kansas high schools and academies, to be held here Friday and Saturday, gives teachers of the state this opportunity to develop and discuss subjects they teach."
Although no special entertainment has been provided for the teachers, extra time will be taken up by high school contests, such as the final debate of the Kansas High School Debating League Friday night, the annual basketball tournament final Sunday, and the second year writing contest.
All teachers will be given opportunity at the conference to advance their theories and to question those of others. These discussions will be led by experts from different parts of the state and of the country.
Arrangements for the尝 of teachers are being made through the registrar's office and the dean of women. Between 500 and 600 teachers are expected. A special lunchroom is set up by Robinson Gymnastics Saturday at 12:30.
Other organizations that meet this week are the Association of America, Saturday, the debating league and American Chemical Society, Saturday.
Y. M. C. A. SECRETARY TO SHOW PICTURES OF ESTES
Tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 in Fraser chapel, M. N. Dillon, general secretary of the Y. M. C. A. conference, will give an address illustrated by pictures of Estes Park and other sections of the Rocky Mountain district. Mr. Dillon will give this talk in May and June. Also the members of the Y. M. C. A. to attend the Conference which will be held at Estes Park. June 7 to 18.
Mr. Wedell, Y. M. C. A. secretary,
said this morning that they were planning
to have a delegate from each
church in Lawrence, from each School
of the University, and from each
fraternity at the Estes Conference.
He said the delegates the delegates from K. U. A. Large
delegation from K. U. is expected at
the conference, twenty-two men have
already signified the desire to go.
Edna R. Lohring, who is acting as a supply teacher in the Abilene high school, visited Friends in Lawrence from Wednesday until Sunday. Miss Lohring was yet to meet the University master complete the work required for her master's degree.
Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Bonebrake drove up from Topeka Sunday to spend the day with their son Frederick, at the Phi Kappa Psi house.
Second Son of Russian Reformer Lectured on Leo Tolstoy Friday
LOVED THE COMMON MAN
Story of Man Who Lived for Ideals and Humanity Interestingly Told
Count Ilya Tolstoy, second son of the late Leo Tolstoy, the great Russian poet, social reformer, and religious mystic, told an intimate story of the life and ideals of his father to an audience of 200 people. Fraser Hall Friday afternoon.
Count Ilya Tolstoy, broad shouldered, rugged of countenance, and said to be the likeness of Leo Tolstoy, told of his father's burning love for humanity, his sincere feeling of brotherhood to all, and his hatred of injustice. He told of his father's struggles because of his strong passions and his ardent longing forsides of a virtue. And finally he described Leo Tolstoy, who was a devoted widow, who gave up all his possessions and fled the world that he might lead the life which he found irreconcilable with his surroundings.
HAD BRILLIANT CAREER
Leo Tolstoy's career was brilliant. He traced his ancestry back to the thirteenth century; he inherited, while a mere boy, vast estates; he was drawn by his venturesome spirit into the Crimean War; and finally he married and settled down on his estates to a life of domestic happiness. It was a great success in his great works, "Anna Rarenina" and "War and Peace," were written.
"It it seemed at this time that my father had everything that a man could desire—fame, wealth, and a happy home life," said Count Tolstoy. "But it was just at this point that his unhappy period began."
ALL LOVED COMMON SIR
All teachings not from
Christ, but truely discarded,
he became intensely social and
wanted to be identified with the
common man. Feeling it impossible to
live a luxurious life, which he
believed forced the masses to toll away
their lives in caressless poverty,
he lived poorly and labored in the field
and ship as a common peasant.
Maloy Hears the News From Kansas
"It was his love of the Russian peasant that saved him in this crisis," said Count Tolstoy. "He loved the Russian peanuts and he was held dear to them. My father's departure from home the last ten days before his death requires no explanation. His ardent longing to conform his life to the dictates of his conscience and to the teachings of Christ caused him to leave his home. Were it not for his children he would have left sooner. It was only when the family ties were loosened that he left. 'I love much' were my father's last words. Love was the keynote of his life."
Ward A. Gardner, a former student of the University now associated with his father in the drug business in Greenleaf, is visiting friends in Lawrence. Mr. Gardner attended the annual spring party of the Sigma Phi Sigma fraternity of which he is a member.
SECRETARY OF NATIONAL TRAINING LEAGUE TO SPEAK
A. L. Fridstein, field secretary for the Universal Training League, will speak informally at the University Club tonight.
Mr. Fridstein, a Chicago Tribune man, spent last summer on the Mexican border as an artillery officer in the Illinois National Guard and while there came to the conclusion that the system of defense of the United States is inadequate, inconsistent, and ineffective, he plans to lie the plan which the Universal Training League is pushing is a long stride toward greater efficiency.
"SOUR OWL" APPEARS AGAIN FRIDAY MORNING
Second Issue of K. U.'s Comic Magazine Full of Clever Material
The second number of the Sour Owl, the humorous magazine issued three times a year under the auspices of the Owls, junior honor society for men, will appear Friday morning of this week. The magazine will be sold on the campus and in Robinson Gymnasium at court; at convention hall, tournament; and in Convention Hall, Kansas City, at the annual Missouri-Kansas track meet Friday night.
Material
Features of the number, according to Wattles, are a double page drawing of spring sports by Benny Minturn, an article on rallies by a faculty man, and a book about sports by another which contains, as usual, the cream of the shady doings on Mount Oread. Many small cartoons and short satires in prose and verse are included. The cover, drawn by a group of three Kansas City artists who call themselves "Neo-Phantasialists," is one of the few books ever used in a University publication.
"The coming issue far surpasses the one published last fall," said Warren Wattles, the new editor of the publication. "The need to share a lot of mighty clever writers and artists in this school, and we've found a good many of them. Both the text matter and the illustrations in the new book seem much than that in the November issue."
A radical change in the management of the publication has been made since its first appearance last fall. The magazine is now managed by a board of managers cosen from the Owl society. Members of the board of managers are Walters, Morris; Deb Trewweeke and Harry Morgan, assistants; Walter Havekorset, business manager; and Don Davis, advertising manager.
MUST SUPERVISE ALL EXAMS
Presswork on the Owl was begun this morning at the office of the Lawrence Journal-World. It will take four days to print the publication.
Disciplinary Committee Sends Announcement of Resolution Killing Honor System
All professors and instructors in the University have received announcement of a resolution adopted by the Disciplinary Committee of the Senate February 28, concerning the honor system. The resolution emphasizes that all examinations held in the university will be supervised and all cases of dishonesty be reported to the Disciplinary Committee.
Dishonesty reported in classes put on the honor plan in the final examinations last semester and the fact that the student body has taken no action toward establishing an honor sentiment since the Senate approved such an institution June 4, 1914 are the cause for passing the resolution.
The Senate reaffirmed its action on June 1914, regarding the supervision of examinations, adequate but not too officious supervision of examinations. Instructors also are asked to exclude students from class in which cheating occurred until the committee has taken action.
PATTERSON GIVES LECTURE
AT POLITY CLUB MEETING
"The Battle of the Marne" will be the subject of a lecture by Prof. D. L. Patterson, of the department of history, before the International Polity Club Wednesday night in Room 202. Administration Building.
This lecture will be given with the aid of lantern slides of scenes of the battle and other scenes showing the devastation of the war in Europe.
Professor Patterson spent several months in Europe after the outbreak of war and will give many perceptions, reminisces, and opinions.
FIRST SCARLET FEVER CASE IN UNIVERSITY
The lecture will be open to the public.
The Weather
Rain or snow northerly and rain in south portion tonight and Tuesday not much change in temperature.
Dr. Sundwall Urges Preventive Measures in Curbing Spread of Disease
BYRON OWEN IN HOSPITAL
University Physician Advises Regular Habits, Cleanliness and No Movies
To the Students of the University:
There is a threatened outbreak of scarlet fever at the University of Kansas. While there is little danger of an epidemic, it is best to take every possible precautionary measure. Quarantine for the disease is given in cases where requested to stay away from all public gatherings. The congested movie and all dances should be particularly avoided. Too close intermingling in the class room is discouraged. Insecurities that all class rooms are ventilated and that students are so distributed that close contact may be avoided as far as possible. All students are asked to obey the regulations of the university. Cases of sore throat should be reported at the University Hospital immediately.
By co-operation and vigilance on the part of the students, the danger will be very much lessened and it will be more unlikely that the work of the University will be interrupted.
Frank Strong,
Chancellor.
John Bunao
Chairman of the University
Health Service.
Unless proper precautions are taken there may be danger of an epidemic of scarlet fever at the University. A physician at the University, physician, this morning.
STUDENTS SHOULD AVOID MOVIES
The first case of scarlet fever brought to the attention of the health authorities this year is that of Byron which is now in the University hospital.
STUDENTS SHOULD AVOID MOVIES
Epidemiics of the disease have appeared at several universities this
month. Many schools curricular
has been necessary to check the
disease. Doctor Sandwall does not believe such action will be necessary if students do their part in preventive measures.
"Students should avoid closely crowded motion picture shows, dances, and other public gatherings," said Doctor Sundwall. "Too close intermingling in crowded class rooms should be avoided as far as possible."
SUNDWALL URGES PRECAUTION
Other precautions Doctor Sundwall urges in avoiding the disease are:
1. An antiseptic mouth and throat gargle.
Frequent use of an atomizer.
Cleanliness and isolation of all toilet articles.
Individual napkins with particular care in their use.
Well ventilated sleeping rooms.
Maintaining the maximum resistance against disease by sane living and regular habits.
Regular sleeping hours and moderate exercise.
HOPE IN RAIN AND COLD
HOPE IN RAIN AND COLD
"Cold and rainy weather will do much to the threaten danger," said Doctor Sunny. "The unusually dry weather has been conducive to the spread of such diseases, and the air is loaded with germs."
"Students not feeling well, especially those with sore throat, should report immediately to their physician or to the University Hospital." The doctor would port sooner to the hospital for treatment and co-operate more with the health service, such epidemics could easily be checked."
D. H. Redinger, e'11, is visiting on the Hill today. Mr. Redinger was connected with Stone and Webster, the largest construction company in the United States, for several years after he was graduated. He has worked on the development of water pumps at the Fort Peck River is now with the Pacific Power Company which controls the development. Mr. Redinger is to be married on the
Little Billy Bob Ireland showed the students living on Tennessee street that he doesn't mind the spring weather a bit. Yesterday he had his sled out as usual. He said that it would slide, too—it was a good sled!